John Hagelin on School Choice

Supports vouchers, charter schools, & block grants

Allow parents to use vouchers or tax-free savings accounts to send their children to any participating school: public, private or religious.

Support creation of more charter
schools where teachers and professionals receive authorization and funding to establish new schools.

Give all federal education funding to states in the form of block grants and allow the states to spend it as they see fit.

Source: Vote-Smart.org 2000 NPAT
Jan 13, 2000

Improved public education might lead to vouchers later

What I’d rather do, in order to avoid that controversy [vouchers], is focus first on educational programs that have been successfully adopted in public and private schools that will eliminate the problems of the school systems and provide much better
educational outcomes for all. Once people feel that the public school system is in a much better stead, people will be far more open to implementing a system like vouchers that would make possible more choice in the educational system for their children.